Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

You warn that agile development could actually prove more expensive, at least to begin with, as any new practices will take time to bed in. Unfortunately the appetite for deep and pervasive enterprise transformation is rarely strong, and any sponsorship for real change is typically weak. How to do this though?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2020

Those meetings aren’t working sessions that are moving us forward and creating new insights as a team; instead they feel like a waste of time. This problem shows up in Scrum Teams, and it shows up well beyond Scrum Teams. Read more about growing a strong team identity. Challenge #1 – Teamwork is not strong.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. So we can also say that the Scrum Master is partly responsible for poor decision generated by the group of people.

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Proofhub

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It includes various tasks, from early idea and planning to creating UX/UI design, development, launch, search for a good Magento support service , and other ongoing optimization. Size up your competition, get the lowdown on their strengths and weak spots to figure out where you can get the upper hand.

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

In many organisations I see Scrum not producing its anticipated value. But there also is a universal anticipated value of Scrum. The Scrum Guide says about Scrum's purpose: “A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.”.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ A new product had been developed to replace an older, third party solution that was no longer tenable. First off, it’s important to note that bureaucracy isn’t bad. Background.

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Agilemania

MARCH 14, 2023

The Definition of Done is the most crucial aspect for the team to be able to build shippable increments of any product. A team’s definition of done helps them continuously add value to the product. The Definition of Done (DoD) is created by the development team or project team.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Settle in, make yourself a brew and enjoy learning from people who actually live scrum day in day out. . This second post in the ‘Agile ADHD’ series from me, Sally Waters, and my husband Francis, is all about the details of how we implement Scrum at home. Nothing helped with this until we tried Scrum. Very inspirational. .

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

TL; DR: A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position. Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? So, read on and learn whether Scrum Masters will soon be replaced with a chatbot. ?? Question : Thank you for your application as a Scrum Master!

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on Scrum Anti-Patterns. Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Which makes any Scrum Master interview a challenging task.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The same metaphor that helps us gain an initial grasp of a new subject can lead us far astray from a deep understanding of that subject, if we cling too closely to the metaphor. “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity. Seems like it should; wouldn’t that mean the team is improving?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Sprint Retrospective is the last Scrum event within a Sprint. During this event entire Scrum Team- Scrum Master, Product Owner & Development Team inspects the Sprint and decides how to improve the next Sprint. Powerful questions help the team to identify solutions and explore other various possibilities.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Appfluence

MARCH 8, 2021

Agile characteristics The Agile Manifesto Agile’s core values Agile’s 12 Guiding Principles Pros and Cons to Agile Project Management Scrum: what it is and how it works Scrum’s Key Components Scrum roles Team characteristics The Scrum Development Process How to implement Agile Project Management Using Priority Matrix.

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EasyProjects

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If you follow the instructions to a tee, it’s going to taste fantastic – just like the reviews say. Agile is flexible and adaptive, relying on constant feedback from stakeholders and teams in order to steer a project towards a desired goal. The one that stands out the most is increased team efficiency based on several factors.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. The PO’s are then unsure what needs to be developed. For instance, a lead developer or architect prepares the work for sprints ahead, acting as a proxy between the teams and the PO’s, splitting the requirements in tasks per team.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There is no doubt now that Agile is not just a buzzword, but a really working methodology that takes software development to the next level. . How does it differ from the traditional approach to product development? SDLC (software development life cycle) is a sequential approach to software development.

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

“Scrum” is a phenomenal subject – i.e. if you are familiar with it. As an Agile project manager, I have seen my fair share of so-called “Scrum Masters” and “Agile Experts” claiming to be masters of their craft. The truth, however, is that they don’t know a lot of things about Scrum and Agile. Introduction – Why Scrum?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Last week, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job. This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In every Scrum.org Professional Scrum Development class, we touch upon both technical and collaboration practices to help improve the development teams explore new options. In a recent class we had two teams that, after two sprints, hadn't been able to deliver any "Done" increment to show at the Sprint Review.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

They are derived from my fifteen years of practical experience with Scrum and XP, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ?? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. Agile projects are iterative and have regular feedback loops.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. What does the team care about? What are their concerns?

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Why We Have Communication Management Plans Projects can be time-consuming and costly, and tie-up valuable employees for long periods with no guarantee of the outcome initially hoped for. Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Not maintaining requirements in an Agile team can lead to several challenges, including scope creep, missed deadlines, low-quality deliverables, and dissatisfied stakeholders. This can cause frustration for both the team and the stakeholders, as the project may require additional work to fix these issues.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Harvard business review has written an interesting article titled why even good projects fail anyway. is it due to lack of planning? The overconfidence of the developers and project members? Who should be involved in the initial planning? 6-Inexperienced development team. So, why so many projects fail?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Indeed, the range from a Monte Carlo forecast can be more accurate and useful to a team in Sprint Planning than an absolute value, such as an average velocity or burn rate projection. In our earlier example, we knew the team velocities for seven Sprints, which were 114, 143, 116, 109, 127, 153, and 120 points. So, what can a 54.3%

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ProProfs Project Management

JULY 9, 2019

The market for mobile app development is growing rapidly in line with the steady advancement of mobile technology. This intense competition has initiated the demand for a more flexible and credible app development approach. In today’s time, it’s a challenging task to develop an app that has a long life span, but not impossible!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Our Business Lending product is being developed by more than 20 teams spread across 3 sites. Each team contains business, IT and operations skills. Previously, I was involved in setting up a retail bank from scratch and in the development of mortgages solutions. My talk was about programmers in large scale development.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Melanie: Okay, Melanie here with Team MPUG. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations. Tim Runcie: I got a good group here today.

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nTask

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Creating an Agile project management office from scratch and managing in such a way that it prospers in the organizational paradigm is a real challenge, especially in the current market where we see successful businesses failing due to poor management. Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous).

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